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Change and Continuity in the Development of Children with Autism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 1998

Marian Sigman
Marian Sigman
Affiliation:
University of California at Los Angeles, U.S.A.

Abstract

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The developmental approach to childhood psychopathology identifies deviations from typical patterns of development and stability of individual characteristics over time, and precursors in early life of later functions. The application of this approach to the social, communicative, and cognitive development of children with autism is discussed. Results from a longitudinal study of children with autism and other developmental disorders are described, indicating that children with autism have stable deficits in joint attention, representational play, and responsiveness to the emotions of others, and that early variations in these abilities are important for concurrent and subsequent language development and for peer engagement many years later.

Keywords

Autismpervasive developmental disordermental handicapDown syndromepreschool childrenschool children
Type
The Emanuel Miller Memorial Lecture 1997
Information
The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines , Volume 39 , Issue 6 , September 1998 , pp. 817 - 827
Copyright
© 1998 Association for Child Psychology and Psychiatry